Spock Nominated by Peace Coalition for 1972 Bid
Dr Benjamin Spock topped the Peoples Party presidential ticket with Julius Hobson as running mate amid tentative nominations. Spock, 68, urged Americans to join a movement against a perceived national slide toward disaster. The convention also featured a Maddox telegram and endorsements for possible future candidates.
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Dallas
UPI
Peoples’ Party
Benjamin Spock
Washington, D. C
Julius Hobson
D. C
Statehood Party
District of Columbia
House of Representatives
Spock
Lester Maddox
Georgia
America
Peking
Moscow
Jack Hampton
California Peace and Freedom Party
Hobson
Clark Avery
Indiana
Shirley Chisholm
Eugene McCarthy
Night Hunting Charge Filed
James L. Wheeler a 35 year old of 315 Bank St Kenedy is jailed in DeWitt County charged with night hunting deer Game Warden Bill Drehr picked him up Saturday at 10 55 p m and took him to the county jail.
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James L. Wheeler
Bank St
Kenedy
DeWitt Cunty
Might
Bill Drehr
Wheeler
County Ty
Cambridge protest disrupts traffic against public enemy one
Police reported a demonstration in Cambridge with over 40 protesters opposing a public figure, causing traffic disruption on the day of the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
England
Nereber
How to Handle Abusive Phone Calls Advice from Southwestern Bell
The article advises hanging up on abusive calls and not engaging with unknown voices. It suggests making callers identify themselves, avoiding answering questions, and ending silent or obscene remarks promptly. If harassment continues, contact the telephone company office or operator.
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Huge Geek
Southwestern Bell
Eck
Geck
Hugo Geck
Cuero Southwestern Bell
Meyersville Honor Students Named for Second Six Weeks
Meyersville School announces honor roll lists from the second six weeks. Principal Leslie G. Flessner cites both highly commendable and commendable students across grades two through eight, including Lynn Egg and Rebecca Rainer among others.
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Meyersville
Leslie G. Flessner
Lynn Egg
Sachelon Pitegerald
Lonely Wise
Stephen Thamm
Bryan Haun
Paula Anzerstein
Rebecca Rainer
M’liss Mueller
Robert Bitterly
Kerby Sauer
Phyllis Doelwown
Karen Hahn
Beverly Jank
Dionis Mueller
Sharon Wendel
Bryan Friedrichs
Oreste
Alsa
Troy Geary
Jennifer McAlister
Brian Wendel
Tersea Diebel
Bruce Goumert
Karen Fitzgerald
Terry Haun
Fred Mueller
Census Planned Buying Study to Track Purchases
Census takers will survey buying habits of 17 000 families starting January and reinterview them three more times in 1972. The data will support a new market basket for the cost of living index prepared with help from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Washington
UPI
Census Bureau
Congressional
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
House Appropriations Committee
Hunt On in Thicket Where Bodies Found
Sheriff deputies will cut into a thick thicket west of Houston with machetes to search for more victims after headless bodies of two teen girls Colette Wilson 13 and Gloria Gonzales 19 were found. Wilson attended a Sugar Land band camp and Gonzales worked for a Houston grocery chain.
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Houston
C. V
Buster
Kern
Colette Anie Wilson
Gloria Gonzales
Miss Wilson
Alvin
Tex
Sugar Land
Brazoria County
Miss Gonzalez
Ben Barnes Calls for Full State Reform in Texas
Lt Gov Ben Barnes urged top to bottom reform of state government at a 3,000 person rally in Mercedes. He criticized outdated 1876 laws, demanded equal rights, and pledged to expand opportunity, jobs, and wages for South Texas as part of a broader overhaul.
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Mercedes
API
Ben Barnes
Barnes
Pio Grande Valley
Ivore
Texas
Justice Ley Hospitalized After Illness at Cuers Hospital
Justice of the Peace Albert Ley is in intensive care at Cuers Community Hospital after a Saturday illness. His son says doctors ran numerous tests and found no heart attack, with all tests satisfactory.
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Justice of the Peace
Albert
Ley
Cuers Community Hospital
Northern Cold Front Drives Texas Weather Shift
A swift Gulf cold front brings cool, partly cloudy skies across Texas as a colder Pacific front nears the Panhandle. Densely reported freezing readings occur in the Panhandle and far West Texas with Amarillo at 10 degrees and Dallas around 39. Showers touch Fast Texas and Gulf Coast as winds gust up to 76 mph in Childress.
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Gulf of Mexico
Texas Panhandle
Panhandle
Texas
Guadalupe Mountains
Marfa
Dalhart
Amarillo
National Weather Service
Childress
Gulf Coast
McAden
Rio Grande Valley
Gray Wolves Invade Moscow Neighborhoods
Two gray wolves roamed Leninsky Prospect in Moscow, scavenging through trash near a kindergarten and boarding school. Police pursued one wolf, killed the other after a chase among rose bushes, drawing disbelief from residents and officials about wolves in the capital.
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Moscoow
Upi
Moscow
Leninsky
Sanday
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Connally Seen as Power Seeker Across Parties
Texas congressmen and editor say John Connally would switch parties to seek power and perhaps a 1972 vice presidency, with George Christian noting a possible future to become president. They describe him as a fierce competitor and pragmatic, backing big banks and oil interests.
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Treasury
Texas
J. Jd. Pickle
Dtex
Connally
Ronnie Kugger
Texas Observer
Eckhardt
Pickle
Dugger
Nationwide Thanksgiving Toll Falls Short of Early NSC Guess
Early holiday traffic death toll runs below NSC estimate of 64 720 with final count expected. As of 11 am EST 591 died in crashes during the four day period ending midnight Thursday. California 62 New York 31 Florida 20 Mississippi 29 Georgia 28 Illinois 28 Michigan 28.
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National Safety Council
NSC
Maine
Nevada
District of Columbia
United Press International
California
New York
Florida
Mississippi
Georgia
Illinois
Michigan
Texas Thanksgiving fatalities total 415 across the state
A Thanksgiving period crash toll in Texas lists 415 accidental deaths. The breakdown cites 26 traffic deaths, seven in a plane crash, five in other mishaps, and three in fires from Wednesday 6 pm to Sunday midnight. A Del Rio car crash killed eight, the nation’s worst traffic wreck.
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Texas
United Press International Court
del Rio
Cuero School Building Plan Expands As Costs Rise
Cuero ISD faces higher costs after voters approved a 1.4 million bond in 1969. Four extra junior high classrooms, four at John C French, eight at Hunt, and a band room plus labs are planned amid anticipated district consolidation. Construction delays raised expenses but district officials say the project will still come out ahead.
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Cuero
CISD
E. BE. Sims
Cuero Junior High
Cuero High School
Sims
Texas
Hunt
John C. French
Hum
CHS
Cuere
Abraham Lincoln Quote On Being On God’s Side
A Bible Thought echoes Romans 8 31 as Abraham Lincoln states he cares not if God is on our side but whether we are on God's. The quotation emphasizes alignment with divine will over divine favor.
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Tam
God
Abraham Lincoln
Hunters told hoof rot in deer not contagious to people
Dr. A. B. Rich of the State Department of Health says hoof rot in deer does not transmit to humans via meat. Findings note several affected deer along the Guadalupe River with no reports in DeWitt County, though seen nearby. Hunters are reassured meat is safe to eat if the deer appears healthy.
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A. B. Rich
State Department & Health
Dr. Rich
Guadalupe River
DeWitt County
Rich
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The
United States
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Peckhardt
Gressman
University of Texas
Feckhardt
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